-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), December 04, 1999

Answers

Ah yes! The classic "make or break" route choice! I had looked at this while running over the fields earlier in the course. I thought about a route that went pretty straight (or more generally about the vegetation features that I could or could not go around along a straight route). The other option I thought about (and chose) was one that avoided more woods, especially dark green, and headed out of #9 to the NW and off the section of the map shown here. Up there, perhaps just 10-30m north of the section of map shown here there are fields to run through going straight west. After rounding the last bit of forest, I headed SW towards the ponds and up the hill through the white. I ran over the dam on the westernmost pond. I ran across the field North of #10 past the area of stone walls and down the strip of white woods along the reentrant.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), December 07, 1999.

This looks like the most interesting leg on the course. It didn't like going straight because of the green hillside just before the control. I ran exactly the same route as Mook. I took a split time for this leg -- 6:39.

-- Spike (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), December 07, 1999.

7:19 (30:42) -- to 10 Becoming inflexible, I stuck to going straight. I crossed the rockwall bits near the dark green north of the line first reentrant from 9. Pretty much followed the line through the field and while I thought about curving to the north of the dark green east of the control, I decided to just go straight and through the field corner. I entered the reentrant maybe 100 meters north of the control and was hesitant at which way to turn, but seeing up towards the top up the hill gave me a good idea to go downhill. I'm pretty sure my route through the dark green was not quite a beeline...

-- Fritz Menninger (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), December 08, 1999.

I chose the route to the right, running close enough to #3 to reach out and touch it as I ran by, had I cared. And right through the same damn patch of briars I had run through before, having forgotten all about them. And I still have a few broken off thorn tips buried in my legs.

-- Swampfox (mikell@sprynet.com), December 11, 1999.